One of the very important things that happened just before the Christmas holiday break was that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget issued the Open Government Directive (OGD), which requires all heads […]
Jackie Ng pointed me to a fascinating session at Autodesk University in December and available online given by Clayton Hotson on the internals of MapGuide and how to visualize data from any FDO supported data […]
The UK Government has announced its intention to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April. The Free Our Data campaign has worked for over three years to convince the […]
According to the Ordnance Survey, OS OpenSpace is intended to promote free and open access to Ordnance Survey data (which is in general relatively expensive) via the OS OpenSpace API to application developers. This means […]
Yesterday I and about 25 other people representing the membership of the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) spent the day talking to civil servants, Members of Parliament, and Deputy Ministers and Ministers about a […]
I have been in Chile most of last week in Santiago, where I gave a presentation at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009). This is my first time in Chile, and I am extremely impressed […]
The latest release of the FDO Toolbox is now available.
I have blogged on previous occasions about the RESTful API for accessing raw geospatial data which Haris Kurtagic developed and which Jason Birch has used to provide open access to geospatial data at the City […]